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hibernal

adjective/hʌɪˈbəːnl/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister

Of or belonging to winter.

The garden had a stark hibernal beauty, all bare stems and frosted seed-heads.

Similar: wintry, winter, brumal

Origin: From Latin hibernus 'of winter'.

Topic: season in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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